This document contains the hardware compatibility notes
for FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 on the NEC PC-98x1 hardware platform
(also referred to as FreeBSD/pc98 5.0-DP2). It lists
devices known to work on this platform, as well as some
notes on boot-time kernel customization that may be useful
when attempting to configure support for new devices.

Note: This document includes information
specific to the NEC PC-98x1 hardware platform. Versions
of the hardware compatibility notes for other
architectures will differ in some details.

This section describes the devices currently known to be
supported by with FreeBSD on the NEC PC-98x1 platform.
Other configurations may also work, but simply have not
been tested yet. Feedback, updates, and corrections to this
list are encouraged.

Where possible, the drivers applicable to each device or
class of devices is listed. If the driver in question has a
manual page in the FreeBSD base distribution (most should),
it is referenced here.

With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is
provided for SCSI-I, SCSI-II, and SCSI-III peripherals,
including hard disks, optical disks, tape drives
(including DAT, 8mm Exabyte, Mammoth, and DLT), medium
changers, processor target devices and CD-ROM drives.
WORM devices that support CD-ROM commands are supported
for read-only access by the CD-ROM drivers (such as cd(4)). WORM/CD-R/CD-RW
writing support is provided by cdrecord(1), which is a
part of the sysutils/cdrtools port in
the Ports Collection.

A range of USB peripherals are supported; devices
known to work are listed in this section. Owing to the
generic nature of most USB devices, with some exceptions
any device of a given class will be supported, even if
not explicitly listed here.